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425 Best Ghosting Quotes: Make Sense Of It, Deal With It

1. “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.” -- Mae West


2. “We can tolerate our true enemies, but not the backstabbers and betrayers.” – Sanji Paul Arvind


3. You're a tough cookie.


4. ”An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake.” – Zero Dean


5. Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. -- Mark Twain


6. I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.


7. “Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.”


8. “It’s bad enough when you are betrayed by an enemy, but it is infinite times more painful when this betrayal is perpetrated by a loved one.”– Unknown


9. “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” — Benjamin Franklin


10. “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”


11. You shouldn't have to try hard, honey.


12. “I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.” — Lucien Bouchard


13. If I cut you off, chances are, you handed me the scissors. -- Unknown


14. ”One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go. If you’ve been hurt until it breaks your soul into pieces, your perspective in life will definitely change, and no one and nothing in this world could ever hurt you again.” – Mareez Reyes


15. ”Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.” – Eminem


16. “You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.”


17. “You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.” – Caleb Carr


18. A wise woman once said, ‘f*ck this shit,’ and she lived happily ever after.


19. “Haven’t heard from you in a long time, which is a bummer. For me, this has run its course.”


20. “Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.” — Stephan Labossiere


21. I like my coffee how I like myself: Dark, bitter, and too hot for you.


22. “You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.” — Tablo


23. “You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels, and hazardous waste. But people?” ― Autumn Doughton, I’ll Be Here


24. “If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.”


25. “She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”


26. “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.”


27. “Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations – but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.”


28. “There’s a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.” — Katya Zamolodchikova


29. “My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He’s in jail now.”


30. “We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.” — Tennessee Williams


31. “You didn’t break my heart; you freed it.”


32. Know your value.


33. This could be your pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.


34. “When you’re out of sight for as long as I was, there’s a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.” – Esther Williams


35. We don't have time to accept anything less than excellence.


36. “Not friends, not enemies, just strangers with some memories”


37. “The fear really hits you. That’s what you feel first. And then it’s the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.”


38. “I think if people could step inside a person who has been betrayed by the love of their life and feel the agony it causes, no one who is human would have it in their heart to cause someone that much pain and heartache.”


39. “A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.” – Cally, Blakes 7, “Mission to Destiny”


40. “The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.” – Adam Levin


41. “Betraying someone once can be a mistake. Betraying someone twice is a choice.”― Garima Soni


42. “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” — Bob Marley


43. “Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.”


44. Never make someone else the main character in your own story.


45. “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation, trying to put the pieces together. Or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.”


46. “Hey, I thought we were off to an amazing start, but you sort of disappeared. I hope everything’s OK. If you wanna talk, I’d love to know what happened, good or bad."


47. “To understand loyalty you need to experience betrayal.” – Thomas, Joy Division (2006)


48. “You can be a whole package and still end up in the wrong address. “


49. “Some things break your heart but fix your vision.”


50. It’s OK if you don’t like me. Not everyone has good taste.


51. Silly me, expecting too much from people again.


52. “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” – Mineko Iwasaki


53. “When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer


54. “If you really want closure, at some point, you have to shut the door.” — Jacki Wells Wunderlin


55. Let yourself let go of the things you cannot dictate.


56. “If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.”


57. “I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”


58. “Betrayal is difficult to process. It is difficult to understand, even on the most basic level.” — Jon Bush


59. “We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.” – Dean Cavanagh


60. “Love can sometimes be magic.


61. Mama Maya has it all figured out.


62. “Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn’t real.”


63. “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” — Jonathan Harnisch, Freak


64. “You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?”


65. “Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.” -- Reuben "Mulah Truth" Holmes II


66. Ain't nothing wrong with a single sister!


67. You’re the reason this country has to put directions on shampoo.


68. ”Keep talking about me behind my back, and watch God keep blessing me in front of your face.” – Unknown


69. “Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.” — Louis Farrakhan


70. “Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easier to sweep it up and toss it out with the rest of the trash. And why is that you ask? Because trash starts to stink… and when it does, it has no more value in your life.”


71. “An open enemy is better than a false friend.” – Greek Proverb


72. “You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.” — Sonya Teclai


73. “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” — Robin Sharma


74. Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage. - Author: Mason Cooley


75. “Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”


76. The word “friend” is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it.


77. “Betrayal is like death: you never think it will happen to you.”― Marty Rubin


78. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”


79. Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. -- Will Smith


80. “The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.” – Aldrich Ames


81. “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”― George R.R. Martin


82. Life is full of fake peoples but before you decide to judge them, make sure you’re not one of them.


83. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”― William Blake


84. No looking back!


85. ”If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.” – Toba Beta


86. “Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.” – Johann Caspar Lavater


87. “In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!”


88. “Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.”


89. “My ex is living proof of how stupid I can be”


90. Air out that dirty laundry.


91. “Know your worth, then add tax.” — Unknown


92. ”He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses.” – Don J. Manuel


93. ”Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” – Proverbs 27:6


94. “All I’ve ever known is about leaving or being left.”


95. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” — Maya Angelou


96. Silly me, expecting too much from people again. -- Unknown


97. Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting a different outcome.


98. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”


99. “Love never betrays. People do.”― Rohit Sharma


100. “They can betray me but I choose not to betray my peace of mind.” – Dodinsky


101. “I am grateful to those who have betrayed me… They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life.” – Steve Maraboli


102. “Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you.” – Unknown


103. A weak man can’t love a strong woman, he won’t know what to do with her.


104. “They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”


105. “In the end, it will be the people you trusted the most who betrayed you the most.”― Marty Rubin


106. Dig deep in your soul and come out on top.


107. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. -- Benjamin Franklin


108. There is a Mr. Right and a Mr. Right Now; know the difference.


109. “All I’ve ever known is about leaving or being left.” ― Carrie Ryan, The Dark and Hollow Places


110. “A major betrayal can decrease our capacity to trust ourselves. Because it slams us over the head and pierces us at our core, we feel vulnerable and wounded.” — Dennis S. Reina


111. “There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you’re down.” – Wes Fessler


112. “Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.” ― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home


113. It’s super fun forgetting all about you.


114. If karma doesn’t hit you, I gladly will.


115. ”In life, you can easily trust someone, but once the trust is broken it’s very difficult to trust anyone again.” – Sushan Sharma


116. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”― Shannon L. Alder


117. “I’m moving forward in life. The only way I’m looking back is if it’s my ass in the mirror.” — Rihanna


118. ”Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon


119. “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly


120. “I missed you until I realized there was never really anything to miss but the peace I felt before I knew you.” — R.H. Sin


121. I’m not searching for my other because I’m not a half.


122. “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”


123. “Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.”― John le Carré


124. War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. . . The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks. - Author: Barbara Ehrenreich


125. “You get used to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”


126. “I don’t understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it’s all I’ve ever wanted?


127. Trust the process.


128. Not everyone you lose is a loss.


129. You might end up surprising yourself.


130. “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” ― Arthur Miller


131. If you listen closely, you can hear me not caring.


132. There is nothing holding you back.


133. “The saddest things about betrayal is that is never comes from your enemies.”― Unknown


134. “One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go. If you’ve been hurt until it breaks your soul into pieces, your perspective in life will definitely change, and no one and nothing in this world could ever hurt you again.”


135. “When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.” – Cassandra Clare


136. “I know what I bring to the table so trust me when I say I’m not afraid to eat alone.”


137. “But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?”


138. “It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.” -- Mae West


139. “I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.” ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


140. I'll say it louder for the people in the back: trust the process!


141. “Endure the present, and watch for better things.” — Virgil


142. “It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it….”― Nicole Richie


143. “They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.” ― John Irving, The World According to Garp


144. “Only those you trust can betray you.” – Terry Goodkind


145. “That’s the thing with betrayal- it’s always the people you love.”― Fatima Bhutto


146. “I’m working on myself, for myself, by myself.” — Unknown


147. “I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.” – Albert Camus


148. “Betrayal is only betrayal when it’s done as an act of carelessness towards our partners.” — Rosana Nassar


149. Not everyone you lose is a loss. -- Unknown


150. ”Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another’s pain, can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in.” – Samuel Johnson


151. You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm. -- Unknown


152. “Never trust on unknown hands, you will never know how they stand by you and backstab with their brains.” – Debolina Bhawal


153. People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention. – Keri Hilson


154. “I know it’s been a long time since we last talked, but I just wanted to say that I’ll always be here for you. I really hope you’re doing well.”


155. I googled ‘who gives a f*ck?’ My name wasn’t in the search results.


156. “I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”


157. “I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” – Steve Maraboli


158. “The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realize, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.”


159. “I’m choosing happiness over suffering. I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” — Elizabeth Gilbert


160. Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die. - Author: Kate Greenaway


161. “You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.” – Anais Nin


162. “Hey, I had a blast with you but I need more communication. Thanks for buying me sushi!”


163. “You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.” ― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe


164. “Love comes to those who still hope after disappointment, who still believe after betrayal, and who still love after they’ve been hurt.” – Unknown


165. “I wish you had been more honest with me. It doesn’t feel great.”


166. “One of the favorite pastimes of Backstabbers is recounting slights and grievances they’ve carried for years.” – Les Parrott


167. “I miss you.”


168. “Hey, are you OK? It’s been a minute.”


169. “Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.”― Christine Feehan


170. “Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it’s up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.” — Emily V. Gordon


171. “As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.”


172. “Betrayal, though… betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.” — Peter Randall


173. “An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake.”


174. ”False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us when we cross into the shade.” – Christian Nevell Bovee


175. “Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?” — Jean Renoir


176. “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.” ― Meredith Taylor, Churning Waters


177. “Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.”


178. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”


179. “There are so many things in life to make you happy. The sound of a child laughing, a rainbow, or a friend losing a ton of weight; and giving away their Lululemon pants that are too big for them now.”


180. “Never underestimate a man’s ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.”


181. My mascara’s too expensive to cry over stupid boys like you.


182. Everything happens for a reason!


183. “Now payback is a bad b*tch. And baby, I’m the baddest. You f*ckin’ with a savage.” — Demi Lovato, “Sorry Not Sorry”


184. “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.”


185. “She would see it as betrayal. Nothing more. Nothing less.” – Samantha Young


186. “I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.”


187. “When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.”― Paula Stokes


188. “Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.”


189. “The feeling was enough, I think. Just to know it. To have it in my bones, make it a part of my history. There was a beautiful ‘before,’ without an ‘after’ to wreck it on the other side.” ― Emma Lord, You Have a Match


190. “This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too… This happens every day. Every day this happens and scarcely anybody cares.”


191. I don’t expect anything from you anymore…


192. “When someone leaves you, maybe you get a reason and maybe you don’t. I don’t know which is better.”


193. “The way they leave tells you everything.” — Rupi Kaur, Answers


194. “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the single person you thought would never hurt you.” – Unknown


195. “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” — Dalai Lama


196. “If you can love the wrong person that much, imagine how much you can love the right one.” — Unknown


197. “The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.”


198. “that is the thing about selfish people. they


199. “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”


200. “Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”― William Shakespeare


201. “Women are upset if their partner has an intimate conversation of any kind with someone who isn’t them. They consider it a violation, a betrayal. Men should think this way, but they don’t.”


202. “Not every person who walks into your life is meant to stay.” — Najwa Zebian


203. “people go204. “Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.” ― Nicole Lyons


205. “Before someone betrayed you, you betrayed yourself.”― Meir Ezra


206. “If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.” — Ivan Nuru


207. People who have done you wrong will always think your posts are about them.


208. ”Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easier to sweep it up and toss it out with the rest of the trash. And why is that you ask? Because trash starts to stink…and when it does, it has no more value in your life.” – Donna Schoenrock


209. I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people. - Author: Christopher Hitchens


210. The point is, Harry, if I'm not to find you abhorrent, there will have to be more reciprocity all round. Particularly from your side. - Author: Hanif Kureishi


211. “A stab from a friend cuts deeper than a stab from a foe.”― Amit Kalantri


212. Listen, I’m a nice person. So if I’m a b*tch to you, you need to ask yourself why.


213. ”Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who betrayed you. Sometimes a good heart doesn’t see the bad.” – Unknown


214. “Never underestimate a man’s ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.” — Rihanna


215. “If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.” ― Toba Beta


216. “Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.”


217. “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”


218. “Know your worth, then add tax.”


219. “Of course. That’s what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.”


220. “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.” -- John Lennon


221. “You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for who you become and how happy you are.” — Rachel Hollis


222. “You know how it feels when you’re someplace and you ask yourself, Why am I here? That’s how it is with me all the time. I can’t wait to leave. To go from wherever I am to some other place. It never ends.”


223. “Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore.” – Kristin Cas


224. “People on the top seldom have enemies, it’s most often the flattering ‘friend’ who stab them in the back.”― Amit Abraham


225. “When someone breaks your trust don’t feel stupid for trusting them. You didn’t do anything wrong they’re just an untrustworthy person.” – Sonya Parker


226. “He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.”


227. “I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specializing in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‘I’s’ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveler.”


228. “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love


229. Roses are red, violets are blue, I’ve got five fingers and the middle one’s for you.


230. ”He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.” – Sophocles


231. “Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.” — Cheryl Strayed


232. Maybe being friends with your ex isn't the worst possible idea.


233. ”It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake


234. “Betrayal isn’t ridiculous. It’s the reason empires fall.” – Marisha Pessl


235. “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”― Mineko Iwasaki


236. “I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.” – Veronica Roth


237. “Betrayal is so common that its scope can scarcely be imagined. It is the main theme of our literature and history.” — Judith N. Shklar


238. “The only way to leave forever is to do so as quickly as possible.” ― Anna Godbersen, Splendor


239. “Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very “poetry of his soul”. Well, it’s not easy but men do it all the time.” – Mario Puzo


240. “Honey, I rose up from the dead. I do it all the time.” — Taylor Swift, “Look What You Made Me Do”


241. “Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind – because if you can’t trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?” — Alexandra Bracken


242. “You don’t lose a good man. You lose a man who’s not good for you.” — Steve Harvey


243. “Betrayals rarely come from an enemy.”― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel


244. “Re-claim your power, don’t you dare shrink your worth for someone else’s glory.” — Nikki Rowe


245. “Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.”― Coco J. Ginger


246. “She doesn’t need to see him go to know he is gone.”


247. Who knew Steve Harvey could be so inciteful?


248. “Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.”― Sara Gruen


249. I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does. - Author: Simon Sinek


250. “Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.” — Wayne L. Misner


251. “In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!” — Andre Aciman, Call Me By Your Name


252. “Like is tough, but darling, so are you.” — Stephanie Bennet-Henry


253. “The way they leave tells you everything.”


254. “There’s no way we won’t run into each other. Please give me space.”


255. “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” – Confucius


256. “Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.” – Sara Gruen


257. “He is very dreamy, but he is not the sun. You are.”


258. “Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.”


259. If you don't love yourself, how are you gonna love anybody else?


260. I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false. - Author: L. Ron Hubbard


261. “It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”


262. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.”


263. Nothing264. “To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”― Malcolm X


265. Don't be a lost and found item.


266. “People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end – whether we’ve had direct experience or not – there’s part of you that knows there’s absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.”


267. “Sweetie, if you’re going to be tow faced, at least make one of them pretty.” — Marilyn Monroe


268. “Do people always fall in love with things they can’t have?’


269. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder


270. The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength. - Author: Virginia Woolf


271. “I hate the moments between


272. “Let it hurt, and then let it go.”


273. “Be careful to whom you trust. Betrayal always come from the persons you trusted.” – Anurag Prakash Ray


274. “Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.”


275. “You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.” – Catherynne M. Valente


276. “It becomes easy to leave once you realize you didn’t belong there.”


277. We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age. - Author: Agatha Christie


278. “If you really want some closure, at some point, you have to shut the door.” — Jacki Wells Wunderlin


279. A weak man can't love a strong woman, he won't know what to do with her. -- Unknown


280. “It’s funny how sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones behind the trigger.” – Unknown


281. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” — Deborah Reber


282. “It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it….” ― Nicole Richie


283. “The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.”


284. “When betrayal is at the root of your pain, something horrible is unleashed.” — Susan Pive


285. ”Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” – Arthur Miller


286. “Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” — Unknown


287. “Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.” – Anita Shreve


288. “It was a mistake”, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” – David Levithan


289. ”For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” – Suzanne Collins


290. “If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.” – Unknown


291. ”I have been stabbed in the back by those I needed the most. I’ve been lied to by those I love. And I have felt alone when I couldn’t afford to be. But at the end of the day, I had to learn to be my own best Friend, because there’s going to be days where no one is going to be there for me but myself.” – Unknown


292. “Spilled coffee on myself and thought of you haha - hope that stain came out!”


293. “Sometimes you have to unfollow people in real life.” — Unknown


294. “I feel sad things didn’t work out between us. Any chance you want to let me know what happened?”


295. “Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.” – William Penn


296. “She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.” ― Julia Quinn, The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever


297. “He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.”― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS


298. “Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.” ― Harriet Evans, Happily Ever After


299. “When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”― Cassandra Clare


300. “If you start to miss me, remember: I didn’t walk away, you let me go.”


301. ”Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.” – Christine Feehan


302. “It becomes easy to leave once you realize you didn’t belong there.” ― Farhad Writings


303. ”Betray a friend and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” — Aesop


304. Being too nice is almost a crime nowadays, fake friends are everywhere.


305. “This is why we call people exes, I guess – because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it’s too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it’s not, because there’s no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”


306. “He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.” — Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed


307. Maybe even lock the door... tight.


308. “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?”― Shannon L. Alder


309. “Don't come back when you realize that I'm rare.” -- Genereux Philip


310. I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy. -- Jared Kintz


311. “If someone can walk away from you, let them walk.”


312. “It’s no wonder that the first response to betrayal is likely to be denial.” — Susan Pive


313. “There is no need to know the reason for why everything happens the way it does. We never question the good, so we mustn’t question the bad. Just trust that what’s meant to happen did, for a reason, and keep moving on.” — Kylie Francis


314. Leave well alone. - Author: T. H. White


315. ”All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.” – Robert C. Solomon


316. You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.


317. “I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.” ― Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow


318. “Sorry, I ain’t sorry… I ain’t thinking bout you.” — Beyoncé, “Sorry”


319. “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation, trying to put the pieces together. Or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.” ― Tupac Shakur


320. “I demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but to move forward.” — Fridtjof Nansen


321. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”


322. “Was it hard?” I ask.


323. I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy.


324. If you show me you don’t give a f*ck. I’ll show you that I’m better at it.


325. “Never run for a bus, train, or man. When one leaves another arrives.”


326. “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”


327. “It’s not just about who’s being real to your face, but also about who’s being real behind your back.” – Unknown


328. What’s a queen without her king? Well, historically speaking, more powerful.


329. Endure the present, and watch for better things. -- Virgil


330. “Love often betrays, but a friend rarely does.”― Amit Kalantri


331. “I refuse to live as half of myself because other people can’t handle all of me.” — Rachel Hollis


332. “There are people out there who do this. They pick up and they leave. Sometimes they were never really there. Other times they are with you, but in their minds they are a thousand miles away. They are taking a walk down an endless road; they are standing in a field of daisies on some unknown cliff; they are floating through space.”


333. “I’m heading to Cheers tomorrow night with some friends if you’re into it! LMK, it would be great to see you.”


334. “I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?” ― John Green, Paper Towns


335. “You didn’t break my heart; you freed it.” — Steve Maraboli


336. “It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.” ― Susan Sontag, Reborn


337. “When you realize you’ve been deeply betrayed, fear really hits you. That’s what you feel first. And then it’s anger and frustration. Then disappointment and disillusionment.” – José N. Harris


338. “Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.” – Lauren Conrad


339. “I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.” – Taylor Caldwell


340. Treat me like a queen and I’ll treat you like a king. Treat me like a game, and I’ll show you how it’s played.


341. “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” ― Suzanne Collins


342. “The worst mistake a man can make is to betray a woman who actually fought the world for him and stood by him and supported him when he was going through the worst in his life.”


343. A fake friend loves to see that you are doing well, but not better than they.


344. “Know what? Bitches get stuff done.” — Tina Fey


345. “For me, I always wonder what’s worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That’s a really tough call.” – Hilarie Burton


346. “There is no need to know the reason for why everything happens the way it does. We never question the good, so we mustn’t question the bad. Just trust that what’s meant to happen did, for a reason, and keep moving on.”


347. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe


348. “Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it.” — Madalyn Beck


349. “Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.”― Toba Beta


350. “They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.” – Joseph Conrad


351. “I once had a ‘best friend‘ share private stories that I had told her in confidence to another mutual friend. I think the worst part, aside from the actual betrayal of trust, is that this experience affected my future relationships, as I was hesitant to be as open with my other friends.”


352. “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”― Confucius


353. “I’m not mad, I’m hurt. There’s a difference.”― Unknown


354. “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” ― Helen Rowland


355. I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor


356. “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”


357. ”The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.” – Heather Brewer


358. “The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” – Unknown


359. Happiness is transactional.


360. “If you really want closure… at some point, you have to shut the door.”


361. “Do you remember this night? I will never forget how long we couldn’t stop laughing. I miss making memories with you.”


362. Stick it out through the hardest parts and something beautiful will come out of it!


363. “Some people don't realize what they have until it's gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.” -- Stephan Labossiere


364. “Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.” ― Javan


365. “I hated myself for going, why couldn’t I be the kind of person who stays?”


366. “The feeling was enough, I think. Just to know it. To have it in my bones, make it a part of my history. There was a beautiful ‘before,’ without an ‘after’ to wreck it on the other side.”


367. “Betraying yourself is a gateway to harming your future self.”― Angel Moreira


368. “I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”― Blaise Pascal


369. “Endure the present, and watch for better things.”


370. “Thank God you blew it.” — Beyoncé, “Best Thing I Never Had”


371. “Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”


372. “Breaking someone’s trust is like crumpling up a perfect piece of paper. You can smooth it over but it’s never going to be the same again.”– Unknown


373. “Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.” — Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden


374. “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.”


375. “I hated myself for going; why couldn’t I be the kind of person who stays?” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close


376. “Not everyone you lose is a loss.”


377. “Betrayal hurts, but I consider it a gift because it has taught me about God, life, others, and myself.” — Cora Jakes-Coleman


378. “They are giving you the gift of showing you, early on, a bunch of red flags about their ability to communicate, respect your feelings, prioritize somebody other than themselves, and basically, have their emotional shit together,” says Weinstein. “Whether or not you two shared certain interests, humor, physical attraction or otherwise is beside the point.”


379. “You do not merit the tears that I shed. I suppose that is the reason why they are not there.”


380. “The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.”― Heather Brewer


381. “Honey, I’m here to tell you that I rose from the grave. It’s something I routinely engage in. Look what you made me do! — Taylor Swift, “Look What You Made Me Do”


382. “Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.” — Reuben Holmes II


383. “To keep holding onto something


384. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” ― Faraaz Kazi


385. “Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.”― J.E.B. Spredemann


386. “Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.” – Toba Beta


387. “I wish the pain of betrayal was as easy to ignore as the red flags that forewarned of it.”― Steve Maraboli


388. “Is everything OK? I haven’t heard from you in a while and am getting a little worried.”


389. “It’s very easy to get a boy to leave the room. It’s much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.”― Elizabeth Eulberg


390. “Once you’d resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.”


391. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” — Mark Twain


392. “He is very dreamy, but he is not the sun. You are.” — Christina Yang, Grey’s Anatomy


393. Be accountable for your self-care.


394. Ri-Ri spills the tea, sis!


395. How does it feel to be used Mare Borrow? - Author: Victoria Aveyard


396. I know what I bring to the table so trust me when I say I'm not afraid to eat alone. -- Unknown


397. “Betrayal is, of course, not a failure of trust but a failure of trustworthiness.” — Russell Hardin


398. “You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”


399. “Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.” – Unknown


400. Friends are supposed to make you feel better about yourself. Just remember that.


401. “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”


402. “The only way to leave forever is to do so as quickly as possible.”


403. “What’s left unsaid, says it all.”


404. “If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.” — Oprah Winfrey


405. ”I’m mature enough to forgive you, but I’m not dumb enough to trust you again.” – Unknown


406. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” — Faraaz Kazi


407. “Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.”


408. “You deserve someone who is terrified of losing you.”


409. “Do people always fall in love with things they can’t have?’ ‘Always,’ Carol said, smiling, too.” ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt


410. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain


411. “Once you’d resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.” ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle


412. “You don’t deserve my tears. I guess that’s why they ain’t there.” — Beyoncé, “Best Thing I Never Had”


413. ”You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.” – Les Parrott


414. “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them… but still move on without them.” — Mandy Hale


415. Too glam to give a damn.


416. “Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.” — Frank Ocean


417. “Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.”― Susan Elizabeth Phillips


418. “There is always a lesson of a lifetime to learn in every betrayal.” – Edmond Mbiaka


419. “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.” — Mae West


420. “Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends.” – Unknown


421. ”The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends.” – Steve Maraboli


422. As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity. - Author: Roberto Calasso


423. “I’m out picking up pad thai — want me to drop some off for you?”


424. “If the betrayal is not taken seriously enough, the memories and wounds of the affair will likely remain, though often hidden from view.” — Herbert Anderson


425. “Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.” – John le Carre

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